"Historia de la vida, hechos y astucias 1769/1781traditional Don Juan Bartholomé" ....is the name this image was saved as on my computer.I know it comes from a pdf from one of the South American repositories - if you only knew how much time I spent not finding suitable/sufficient material to make posts on subjects from South America and particularly Asia and Africa....well, anyway - if anyone ever has any suggestions about esoteric and rare book or print image sites or ideas even that pertain to these areas of the world, please don't be shy in passing on the details.

"Küchler, Balthasar"from one of the festival books at the British Library.

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Heh..that was the only thing I didn't go back and check!! (but I have now).It's actually Abraham Ortelio (although he is cited around the place as 'Ortelia').If you go to this page, that particular map is about 1/3 of the way down the page - click for varying -up-to-ENORMOUS versions (my local copy - not the biggest I don't think - was about 4Mb).

It's a great set of middle east maps on that site actually - I had been musing on the idea of making a post out of the page but....*shrug*